AN EGYPTIAN GESSO-PAINTED WOOD PTAH-SOKAR-OSIRIS

NEW KINGDOM-THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, CIRCA 1200-900 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN GESSO-PAINTED WOOD PTAH-SOKAR-OSIRIS
NEW KINGDOM-THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, CIRCA 1200-900 B.C.
The standing mummiform figure wearing an elaborate broad collar with falcon-head terminals, and a striped tripartite wig, the falcon face with the characteristic eye details in black, the head surmounted by a crown of ram horns, sun-disc and plumes, a single column of hieroglyphs down the front reading 'the deceased, the royal scribe and writer of the lord of the two lands, the head of the grain chambers, the head of the treasure house of Amun (names) Ij, the justified' and on the back reading 'the Royal offering Osiris, the lord of Busiris, the great god, the lord of Abydos, Wenen-nefer, consisting of bread, beer, cattle, game and all things good and pure for the Ka of Ij, the justified'
31 ¼ in. (79.3 cm.) high

Provenance

Waldner-Gassner collection.
Resandro collection, acquired from the above in 1975.

Exhibited

Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung; Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin; Munich, Staatliche Sammlung Ägyptischer Kunst Munchen; Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Gott und Götter im Alten Ägypten, 1992-1993.

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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Schoske & Wildung, 1993, pp. 177-178, no. 117.
Grimm-Stadelmann, 2012, p. 97, no. R-358.

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